In seven previous snow retreats I had never visited the tubing hill at the Double-K. For years I’ve heard stories, seen pictures, and watched video. But I never made the trek across the field and gone down for myself. That changed last week.
Now there’s a story circulating that Phil’s sons gave him significant grief for wearing the helmet. Darlene took pictures with her iPhone and apparently the family sent emails back and forth amongst themselves all afternoon questioning the preacher’s manliness. For the record, I not only embraced the little girl bike helmet, I’m glad I did. Note especially the stage six and seven pictures below.
So far so good.
Starting to get a little bumpy.
Backwards is bad.
The feet are not supposed to go over the head.
You know what’s coming next.
The face plant. (Click on the picture to see a larger image).
Thankful for the little girl helmet now.
All the way around.
Going around again.
More roll than flip this time.
Almost done.
The end.
You can watch the slideshow here. And thanks to Jesse Martin for the photography.
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I am amazed at how much this tubing hill has brought fame and laughter to the blogosphere. Next, we need to get video of the pope going down.
Very true, Mijah, but I don’t think Dr. MacArthur has the time. Maybe you could ask him.
I’m curious: do you consider the use of the girl bike helmet to be strictly preemptive action in the event of a wipe out (latter half of pictures), or did it just happen to be an unassailable fashion statement? Either way, I must say you pull it off quite well. You might consider preaching in it sometime, and then posting video of it on the Void for those of us in the frozen wasteland of the midwest to enjoy :-)
The bike helmet is a tubing hill insurance requirement, though I’m flattered by your compliments.
Please tell me you have this on video.
Jamie, no video, hence the still pics post. But I think they still get the point across. At the least they remind me of the reeling experience, perhaps too well.